How do I use Rails clockwork gem to run rake tasks?

Question

What is the syntax for calling rake tasks from clockwork? I\'ve tried all kinds of syntax, and nothing seems to work. (I\'m specifically interested in clockwork because Her

Answer 1

rake is not a method, so you can't invoke it like that here.

You can either shell out and invoke it, something like

every(30.seconds, 'Send Messages') {
  `rake scheduler:send_messages`
}

or rather invoke a new detached process using the heroku API. This is my preferred method right now:

Heroku::API.new.post_ps('your-app', 'rake scheduler:send_messages')

Heroku::API is available from heroku.rb: https://github.com/heroku/heroku.rb